It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

....Love is not only wired, but elusive too.

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

Whose silence are you?